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Drama
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney), a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The Consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, ... [+]
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November 27, 2011
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La sombra de la novela de Lowry se alarga inevitablemente sobre toda la película y, bajo el enorme peso de una de las obras cumbre de la narrativa contemporánea, la cinta se convierte en una historia simplona con personajes desdibujados sin el menor interés. Totalmente prescindible.
